Blue Skin of the Sea by Graham Salisbury (set in Hawaii and middle school level)

Under the Blood Red Sun by Graham Salisbury (set in Hawaii, about relationship between  Japanese-American and Caucasian boys during WWII/Pearl Harbor ... upper elementary reading  level)

Hawaii by Michener

 Lord of the Deep by Graham Salisbury

Leaving one-foot island, and, Return to one-foot island, both by Graeme Lay.  About an island girl who goes to NZ for schooling, and doesn't find it easy
 to adjust.

"Name me nobody" by Lois-Ann Yamanaka

Pene du Bois, William.     The twenty one balloons. -- New York : Puffin Books, 1947.    Relates the incredible adventures of Professor William Waterman
Sherman,  who in 1883 sets off in a balloon across the Pacific, survives the volcanic eruption of Krakatoa andis eventually picked up in the Atlantic.